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1 LeAnne Brown: You indicated in response to Mr. Katz question that although you’re working out at PFab 2 that you plan to conduct this operation in the barn and that you were proposing to build at Morrow Mill or 3 have built at Morrow Mill Road. Where exactly in the barn will you be storing equipment? 4 5 Chris Brewer: The processing equipment? 6 7 LeAnne Brown: Yes. 8 9 Chris Brewer: The kitchen area. 10 11 LeAnne Brown: When you say the kitchen area, is that the kitchen area that is also available to be used by 12 wedding caterers. 13 14 Chris Brewer: Yes, Ma’am. 15 16 LeAnne Brown: And how large is the equipment that you plan to store in the kitchen that the wedding 17 caterers will be using? 18 19 Chris Brewer: So what we’re using now is probably about 3 feet in diameter and about 3 feet tall. The kettle 20 that we use now. We would probably want to get something a little bit larger than that. As we project to 21 have more chestnuts than what we’re producing now. So we would probably want to have a larger kettle. 22 23 LeAnne Brown: In the 4,600 square feet of barn that you are building on Morrow Mill Road how many 24 square feet of that will be devoted to storing this 3 foot by 3 foot piece of equipment in the kitchen? 25 26 Chris Brewer: Well it would probably be a bit larger than 3 by 3 but maybe 5 by 5. So 25 square feet. 27 28 LeAnne Brown: 25 square feet are necessary in order to store the entirety of your equipment for the 29 chestnut operation? 30 31 Chris Brewer: Yes, ma’am. But we also need… The drying the chestnuts is important as well. We have to 32 be able to let the chestnuts sit out and dry for a day before we actually put them in the water bath. And then 33 once we put them in the water bath we need them to dry before we put them in refrigeration. So actually 34 having the space to be able to set the chestnuts out on tables is very helpful. 35 36 LeAnne Brown: And so how do you work that with using this barn for a wedding which Ms. Brewer testified 37 that you have advertised that when a bride uses this as her wedding venue she has the full run of the 38 entirety of your farm? Would you explain to me how those two things work together? 39 40 Chris Brewer: Sure. Well you’re not forced the chestnuts every day. So you can accumulate chestnuts over 41 1, 2, or 3 days, which is basically what we’ve been doing now, and then you can process them all at once. 42 And then go 3 more days before you have chestnuts. So a day or so is very doable. 43 44 LeAnne Brown: And where do you keep all these chestnuts while the bride has full run of your barn? 45 46 Chris Brewer: I think we’ll have a kitchen by then and we’ll have refrigeration. 47 48 81